Father of modern ventriloquism. Popularised the use of a single dummy. Father of Val Parnell. Born in Poplar. Died Wembley.
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Fred Russell
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Fred Russell
Fred Russell, 1862 - 1957, father of modern ventriloquism, lived here in flat...
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Patrick Hamilton
Novelist and playwright. Born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton at Dale House, Hassocks, Sussex. He suffered multiple injuries when hit by a drunken driver in 1932. This may well have had a bearing o...
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Shepherd's Bush Empire
Theatre. Built for impresario Oswald Stoll and designed by Frank Matcham. Amongst its first performers were the Fred Karno troupe featuring Charlie Chaplin. When the appeal of variety shows began t...
1 memorial
Bedford Music Halls, Old and New
Performers and patrons were depicted by the artist Walter Sickert at the turn of the century.
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Mike Leigh
Writer and director of film and theatre. Born Welwyn, brought up in Salford. Trained at RADA then at East 15 Acting School where he met Alison Steadman, who he married in 1973. Together they mad...
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Tricycle Theatre / Kiln Theatre
Originally opened as a home for the Wakefield Tricycle Company which started in a room behind the Pindar of Wakefield pub in King's Cross. Inside the foyer of the Tricycle Theatre/Cinema is a plaq...
1 memorial
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Carl Linnaeus
Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried b...
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Thomas Bowyer
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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